Skin84 wrote:Forza Juveeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!! Hopefully we'll arrive in the final. Forza Inter, take Milan out of the competition

JUVENTUS!!! The best footbal team this year But I guess Inter finds us in Champions not Milan So let's just not give them so much "forza" xox.

Good luck tonight!

LMAO!

Juventus the best team this year? Well they didn't play like it last night. I'm a gunners fan and we outplayed Juventus in every area, that is the only way to describe it. If there had been another ten minutes I think Arsenal would of scored a couple more goals, Juventus were busy getting players sent off! I felt sorry for Viera though.

Lynx - from Los Angeles
Cmasta - from London
Ollie - from somewhere in East Anglia (Brentwood or Norwich?)
zipp0_0 - from Sydney

...the other two didn't specify, but I'd lay money it's not Manchester.

It reminds me of a competition on Radio 1 for tickets to the Manchester derby a few years ago - Mark & Lard (being City fans) were giving away tickets to United fans and someone else (can't remember) was giving out tickets to City fans. The two City fans were from Manchester, the two United fans were from somewhere like Swindon and London.

...can you say "glory-hunter"?

Sorry, I just have a big thing against Man Utd for personal reasons.

This post is highly unlikely to be serious. Please treat it accordingly. Unless it's music-related, in which case I'm damn well right.

king_oxymoron wrote:I don't think it would devalue the competition at all - Liverpool would still be the rightful winners - some teams play well in Europe and not in the league (Liverpool) and some visa versa (Arsenal) - thats just the way it is!

OH the irony! But hell yeah for a second year in a row with an English team in the final!

Lynx - from Los AngelesCmasta - from LondonOllie - from somewhere in East Anglia (Brentwood or Norwich?)zipp0_0 - from Sydney

...the other two didn't specify, but I'd lay money it's not Manchester.

It reminds me of a competition on Radio 1 for tickets to the Manchester derby a few years ago - Mark & Lard (being City fans) were giving away tickets to United fans and someone else (can't remember) was giving out tickets to City fans. The two City fans were from Manchester, the two United fans were from somewhere like Swindon and London.

...can you say "glory-hunter"?

Sorry, I just have a big thing against Man Utd for personal reasons.

What you have just said John is seriously flawed because you obviously don't know me well enough to know that I was born in Blackpool and grew up in the North. I'm not gonna change my football team just because I move. If I did I would've supported about 10 different teams by now and that's hardly an exaggeration.

And I doubt if any of us were glory hunters we'd be professing our Utd. love through the comparative slump of recent years.

Oh and Adam, this coming from an Arsenal fan whose team has fielded all foreign teams more times than I care to remember this season. You might as well be playing in another country for all you add to the wellbeing of this country's football grassroot development!

Bloody Nora Mollie, no matter YOUR heritage, the man is right, a minimal amount of United fans actually have ever had anything to do with Manchester, certainly alot less than City!

And no matter who Arsenal have fielded that has absolutely ZERO to do with the point. The reason I'm a gooner is the fact that my Grandad and Dad are Londoners and it's been handed through the families. Obviously MY heritage has little effect either but seems to me there are a lot more Londoners as Arsenal fans than Mancunians as United fans..

The foreign team thing is a very different matter, and yes we should field more English players, but of course we are going to want to field our best team, and because of where our manager is from, he scouts abroad. And since we've beated Real and Juve it's not done much harm. But as I say, totally totally totally irrelevant to the point in hand.

Sorry to burst a few mis guided bubbles in this thread, but all this rubbish about UNITED fans coming from everywhere but Manchester, what total b*££*$$s.
Firstly, yes they'res loads of UNITED fans in every village, town & city in the UK,Europe, & around the Globe, thats because they're the best supported team in the world, bar none.
Secondly,& I assume I'm addressing a predominantly Soccer AM type football fan here, so you should all be aware of the Carling Opta stats. As late as 2000, they commissioned a survey to find out a few facts about supporters of Premiership clubs, & incredibly they found at the time only Blackburn, & Sunderland had a higher %, yes PER CENTAGE of SEASON TICKET holders who lived within a 20 MILE radius of the ground, so please stop BORING people with the old chestnut "ALL UNITED FANS LIVE IN KENT,ESSEX, & ANYWHERE OTHER THAN MANCHESTER"
Do you all seriously believe, Anfield, The Emirates, The Bridge, St.James, Etc., are full of scousers, cockneys, & geordies, Christ, GET A LIFE!

because the type of fan that is prevalent in Kent/Essex/London is the armchair fan, many of whom havent been near Old Trafford in their life

Whilst I wouldnt expect many down South to be STH's, you would at least think you'd have been to see your team at least a few times. However many Utd fans I know have never been or have only been once when they were a kid

Liverpool is another club I would say attracts this kind of fan but not as much as Utd

Arsenal and Chelsea however, while again they have some fans that dont go to games, at least the clubs can be loosely classed as local to southerners

And I bet there arnt that many Arsenal and Chelsea fans up north (although i could be wrong)

You most certainly are wrong, at the moment I'm working in Scotland, & I've seen more Chelski shirts in the time I've been there, than Celtic, & Rangers shirts put toghether, any team that has a bit of success will always find "support," Christ, go back 10 years and how many people up & down the country could be seen wearing Blackburn shirts.
The difference with United is, since the inception of the Premiership, & the success of the Fergie years its become fashionable to hate United, & that leads to jealousy of everything about the club, one thing a scouse colleague of mine could never get his head round when the bindippers were winning League Titles, & Euro Cups for fun, was that UNITED were still getting bigger crowds than them, so yeah, United have got fans all over the place, a lot of whom have no intention of going to OT ever, but so do all major clubs, Arse, & Chelski included, so please, please, please stop banging on about Uniteds phoney support, as if no other club doesn't have 'em.

king_oxymoron wrote:Bloody Nora Mollie, no matter YOUR heritage, the man is right, a minimal amount of United fans actually have ever had anything to do with Manchester, certainly alot less than City!

And no matter who Arsenal have fielded that has absolutely ZERO to do with the point. The reason I'm a gooner is the fact that my Grandad and Dad are Londoners and it's been handed through the families. Obviously MY heritage has little effect either but seems to me there are a lot more Londoners as Arsenal fans than Mancunians as United fans..

Obviously not many londoners knew how to get to the library that season.
& another point, if arse, chelski, the bindippers, Christ, even west ham haven't got fans around the UK, why are they selling magazines in newsagents around the UK? You've all got your share of day trippers, so why try to deny it.
As I keep saying, UNITED have got more, cos they've got far bigger support, they ARE THE GLAMOUR club, they're the team who make news, who sell papers, have the biggest TV viewing audiences, and, coincidently attract FAR BIGGER ATTENDANCES!

A rather interesting snippet from an Arse website caught my eye today, a first division match against Leeds Utd in 1966 attracted a gigantic crowd of...., wait for it....4,544,oops, once again it would seem a lot of londoners had amnesia that particular evening,...or maybe they just couldn't have been bothered that night!